Seconding Ross's suggestion, and hoping for a way to extract these
records in bulk, or for UF to do so. Note that U Michigan has also
identified its own original cataloging and has made the file available:
http://ckan.net/package/umich-marc-records-cc0
Of course, now we need these all searchable so they can be re-used.
But this is a great start.
kc
Quoting Ross Singer <rossfsinger_at_GMAIL.COM>:
> This is fantastic. Way to go UF. If they would also add this in a
> machine readable way (unfortunately, I have no idea where this should
> go), we could filter records like these programmatically and reuse
> them with confidence.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out, Eric (and, by extension, Pascal).
>
> -Ross.
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nd.edu> wrote:
>> Through the grapevine -- specifically, Pascal Calarco -- I learned
>> of the following announcement regarding the application of CC
>> licensing against MARC records by the University of Florida:
>>
>> Beginning March 2011, the University of Florida Smathers
>> Libraries implemented a policy to include a Creative Commons
>> license in all of its original cataloging records. The records
>> are considered public domain with unrestricted downstream use for
>> any purpose.
>>
>> The following MARC 588 field (Source of Description Note) is
>> added to new records contributed to WorldCat. It has not been
>> added retrospectively to University of Florida original records
>> in WorldCat.
>>
>> 588::|a This bibliographic record is available under a
>> Creative Commons CC0 license. The University of Florida
>> Libraries, as creator of this bibliographic record, has
>> waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law,
>> including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent
>> allowed by law.
>>
>> The University of Florida OPAC (a Solr/Lucene search engine) is
>> configured to display a Creative Commons CC0 license statement
>> based on the presence of a University of Florida OCLC symbol in
>> the MARC 040 field |a. The specified 040 |a is mapped to the
>> originalcataloger_text field in the Solr/Lucene record if it
>> exists in incoming records. This allows the statement to be
>> displayed in the OPAC for original records retrospectively, i.e.,
>> records without the 588 field, and appear in RSS feeds.
>>
>>
>> See http://bit.ly/hAsh7Y Kudos!
>>
>> --
>> Eric Lease Morgan
>> University of Notre Dame
>>
>
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